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welcome to the conkey ride home for Friday, March 11th, 2022.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

Abraham Lincoln was a telegraph power user, and the 1,000 telegrams he sent during his presidency

might have helped the U.S. win the Civil War.

Plus, an app that can diagnose rare diseases just by scanning

a child's face. And 10,000 people in New Orleans were without power for hours yesterday due to a

surprising, but it turns out, not uncommon, cause. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

As regular listeners will have picked up on, I am fascinated by attempts to understand our current relationship with technology

by comparing and contrasting it with other major shifts in technology throughout history.

Now, we can't find exact answers by looking back at history, of course, but sometimes it can

challenge us in new ways, or even just provide solace that some of the more concerning human

behavior we're seeing in response to this specific technological shift is not necessarily

a reflection of us as human beings uniquely unhinged now as compared to previous eras.

You know, it can be really eye-opening to see how similar responses to new technologies often have been throughout time.

Even without needing to draw comparisons to the internet or social media or what have you, historians are constantly pointing

out the huge shifts that happened in the world off the back of the printing press.

The accessibility of the written word, the increase in literate people across social classes,

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